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OASIS IN THE NEWS JANUARY 6, 2009

Health from the inside out

12:00 AM CST on Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Like any fitness instructor, Alice Ann Dailey takes great joy in her students' progress. But a unique method in neuromuscular re-education that adds strength while improving flexibility and spinal alignment has had an unexpected result: Her students' nagging health issues have slowly faded away.

Drew Parham, a North Dallas real estate agent, noticed marked improvement in her motion sickness, which she had suffered from since junior high in Midland, within three months of her first visit four years ago to the Oasis Mind-Body Conditioning Center in North Dallas.

"I have never been able to go on rides at the fair, turn circles without feeling ill, get up fast, etc.," she says. And, "I had migraine headaches and sinus headaches for many years."

Parham says she credits core strengthening, posture correction, flexibility exercises and body awareness techniques she picked up on her workouts, which she does three times a week.

"One thing I've learned is that most students with headaches have tense feet," Dailey says. "One student went to doctors and took drugs for years. She no longer has migraines since she learned how to relax her feet."

A series of yoga-related poses – the "five Tibetans," which Dailey gleaned from Peter Kelder's book, Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth: Book 1 (Doubleday; $12.95) – have been integrated into her methods. She says it's helped immensely with the inner ear and eye connection of Parham and others.

Like many other studios, the Oasis teaches yoga, Pilates and tai chi. But the studio's Inner Body Workout is the only one of its kind in this area, Dailey says. She first learned of the method, which isolates a few muscles at a time to work the core for strengthening and flexibility, years ago when an osteopath brought in an expert on what they called Physio-Synthesis. The method has been around since Dr. Amy Cochran developed it back in the '30s for patients with poor posture and little muscle tone.

"Those unemployed muscles need to get back to work," says Dailey, who has a master's in exercise physiology and runs the Oasis.

Dr. Conrad A. Speece, an osteopath who practices near White Rock Lake, says the technique "feels real strange because you're working with these itty-bitty muscles." However, "I see the results. I know the stuff's real."

Garland wedding planner Luisa Selman can vouch for that. Her inner core was out of shape and stressed after having five children, and she struggled with incontinence "when you sneeze, when you laugh, when you cough," she says.

But those days are over. Her love for Pilates drew her to the Oasis, but she added Inner Body Workouts. She was pleasantly surprised when her bladder issues subsided.

Kathleen Green is a Plano freelance writer.

ALICE ANN DAILEY AND OASIS FEATURED IN 3/14/2008 DALLAS MORNING NEWS

A few simple exercises will help your feet stay strong and keep you feeling good. Alice Ann Dailey, an exercise physiologist and owner of Oasis Mind-Body Conditioning Center, offers these ideas that can be done almost anywhere.

See the Complete Story:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/pt/slideshows/2008/03/pho_031008_feet/

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